Banks and Banking - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

options, and (2) they harbored reservations about entrusting an unfamiliar FinTech without an established banking relationship. Consequently, I began to envision a neobank dedicated to migrants, initially... View Details

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of America, Chase, and Citibank all did, so that’s where I applied. I decided on San Francisco-based View Details

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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Carmen Reinhart HKS ITF-270 The Financial System and the Central Bank By: Jeremy C. Stein Harvard University Econ 1759 Behavioral Finance By: Jeremy C. Stein & Andrei Shleifer Harvard University Econ 2728,... View Details

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Maha Malik

View Video Born and raised in Islamabad by two parents actively involved in the public sphere—her mother worked at the Ministry of Labor and Manpower, her father at the World Bank—Maha Malik (MPP/MBA 2019)... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

companies make mistakes that derail and even destroy them. How can companies sustain commitment and performance in this environment? A: Clearly the 2008-2009 economic crisis has some macroeconomic causes.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

deceitfulness and fraudulence led to his public lambasting. Santos is just the latest in a long line of leaders for whom integrity has little to no meaning, including Frank’s Charlie Javice, FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Tesla’s Elon Musk,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Business and Shareholder Relations ; Social Issues ; Retail Industry ; Food and Beverage Industry ; View Details

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

not to recall pleading guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in 2009; and when asked whether he served several months at Riker’s Island in 2010, he answered, “I don’t know.” Similarly, in a 2007 Senate hearing to investigate his role... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Mike Laffin

at Catholic Charities, devoted their lives to serving the less fortunate in Hartford. They taught me to use your gifts to serve others and to never shy away from an opportunity to do the right thing—no matter the risk. I left investment... View Details

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Hamilton Hall | About

the United States . . . was the price of liberty.” He introduced plans for the First Bank of the United States, established in 1791, which was designed to be the financial agent of the Treasury Department. The View Details

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

they can’t make an overall risk assessment. Gazette: This week, a panel of banking regulators and treasury officials from the G20 countries said it will put forward “robust” new regulations in October in... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

work less.” Empowerment through financial access Conducted in partnership with state and bank authorities, the study, which took place from 2013 to 2017, looked at 5,851 married couples in 197 villages in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are generally sound, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Banking

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the European Central Bank. She serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, View Details

01 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Choosing the Right Student Loan

be a good idea to consider these types of loans. Both domestic and international students may benefit from having a U.S. co-signer on private loans. When exploring private loan options, you may want to start with your current View Details

June 1990
Teaching Note

Citibank in Zaire (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

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All Functions - Recruiting

Receiving $30k 61% Receiving Consulting 18% $190k 25th Percentile Base $190k Median $192k 75th Percentile Base $30k 90% Receiving $40k 84% Receiving Finance 38% + – Expand Row $155k 25th Percentile Base $175k Median $200k 75th Percentile Base $50k 47% Receiving $113k... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

Australia’s fourth-largest company, agreed to let Buell and Choi test the benefits of trade-off transparency among its prospective credit card customers. Commonwealth Bank is the country’s biggest issuer of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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